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Stony Brook Opera inaugurates its 2012-2013 season with Great Romances: Myths, Fairy Tales and Literary Classics. This stirring program presents love scenes from French opera and operetta, including Offenbach's La belle Hélène (the myth of the provocative and beautiful Helen of Troy), Massenet's Cendrillon (the beloved fairy tale, Cinderella), Gounod's Roméo et Juliette (Shakespeare's tale of star-crossed lovers), and Massenet's Werther (from Goethe's sensation, The Sorrows of Young Werther). David Lawton, Professor of Music and Artistic Director of Stony Brook Opera will conduct the show; Metropolitan Opera soprano Jennifer Aylmer returns as stage director. The scenes will be semi-staged, with piano accompaniment, and will be sung in the original French language, with projected titles in English.